For 15 million years, an icebound lake has remained sealed deep beneath Antarctica's frozen crust, possibly hiding prehistoric or unknown life. Now Russian scientists are on the brink of piercing through to its secrets.
A team of engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, has found a way to grow tiny crystals that produce laser light, and bring the arrival of laser-based electronics one step closer.
If people on Earth want to talk to aliens, we may have to change our tune - or at least the way we broadcast it. And we may need a crowd to help figure out what to do.
Studies published in the medical journal The Lancet, show that obesity worldwide almost doubled in the decades between 1980 and 2008.
NASA's Kepler space telescope has found a system of six planets around a small sun-like star 2,000 light years away, the most ever seen at once/
A new research has confirmed five new genes involved in Parkinson’s Disease (PD), bringing the total to eleven, showing that genetic factors play a greater role in the disease than previously believed.
Russian ground control has received the first signal from the military satellite Geo-IK-2, deemed lost two hours after launch on Tuesday, the Itar-Tass news agency said on Wednesday.
NASA's Kepler space observatory has discovered more than 1,000 possible new planets outside the solar system, marking a watershed in the search for habitable alien planets.
Two political scientists at Hebrew University in Israel say they have come up with a method of predicting the likelihood that a country will suffer civil unrest.
Researchers are looking to a material that they once gave up on as a way to make smaller, faster, more energy efficient transistors.
The number of Americans with diabetes have increased to nearly 26 million as more people are developing the disease and many who have it are living longer, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Charlie refuses to go to a rehab facility and wants to undergo treatment at home
President Barack Obama said on Friday his healthcare overhaul is an important part of efforts to cut the budget deficit and insisted he will not refight the battle to pass the law.
An asteroid that once was seen as a danger to the Earth may soon be a once-in-a-century opportunity to get a close look at one - and learn more abut the ones that really are a hazard.
Microsoft's Kinect is starting to mount a credible challenge to the Nintendo Wii.
The final moments of the Challenger mission captured on audio and video.
For the first time, sales from Kindle books outsold their paperback counterparts sooner than expected.
It is often misdiagnosed and confused with Down’s syndrome
The partnership would work towards immunization of millions of children in Afghanistan and Pakistan against deadly diseases such as polio, diphtheria, tetanus and others
NASA TV will stream live coverage of a supply shipment arrival to the International Space Station research facility on Saturday.
The famous 20-year-old telescope spots an ancient galaxy approximately 13.2 billion years old.
The National Weather Service in Upton has issued a winter storm warning for portions of northeast New Jersey, New York City and Long Island.
NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer satellite has captured an image of a star that is flying through space faster than a rocket launches from the pad.
Life spans in the U.S. lags behind its major high-income industrial peers largely due to Americans’ long history of smoking as well as rising rates of obesity, according to a new report from the National Research Council (NRC).
One of the brightest stars in the sky could get as bright as a full moon and offer scientists an inside look at how supernovae work.
One of the brightest stars in the sky could get as bright as a full moon, and offer astronomers an inside look at an exploding star.
Scientists in the United Kingdom have identified a “rogue” gene that attacks and breaks down a naturally-occurring protein in the body which normally prevents cancer cells spreading. By blocking the WWP2 gene, which is an enzymic bonding agent found inside cancer cells, levels of the natural inhibitor are boosted and the cancer cells remain dormant.
A quantum computer could be one step closer as scientists at Oxford University have generated billions of quantum bits in silicon.
With the reopening of clinic where a hyperbaric chamber exploded killing a woman and her grandson, the debate over the dependability of these medical devices has risen again. Hyperbaric Chambers, life-saving devices or killer machines?
A group of researchers has found the first direct evidence that a supervolcano eruption in what is now SIberia may have driven the biggest extinction event in the Earth's history.
